Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-14
Per, and scissors.

PEN and Scissors.
A writer in the Brooklyn Eagle says
"It will amaze most people to know tha
it is the exception during the winte
season, when there are not four or fiv,
private dinner parties given every nigh
in the upstairs room at Delmonico's, al
prices ranging all the way from S6 to $5t
q plate. There have been dinners which
cost more than $50 a plate, but tn,
money was spent upon elaborate pres
ents to be put at each plate. The Del
monico steward is something of a genius
in the way of running up the cost of q
dinner without endangering the life Of
the dinner, but even he is sometimes al
the end of his resources and has to be
helped along by his guests. just al
present the season for these little dinner
parties has reached its height, and
there is considerable rivalry between
Delmonico's, the Hoffman house and the
Hotel Brunswick as to which one shall
receive the cream OF this business. For
very large dinners the first-named seems
to be preferred, but for dinners of less
than hundred covers, the other houses
are sharp competitors. For $40 plate
was offered the following dinner, given
in luxurious private parlor aad with
every possible elegance of service: Oys.
ters, soup, patee, salmon, lamb, vegeta.
bles of several kinds, roast beef, chops,
French peas, waterloo punch, red.head
duck, salads, fruit, coffee and the fol.
lowing wines for fourteen persons: Seven
bottles Of Sauterne, two bottles of
sherry, six bottles of Bordeaux, eight
bottles of Pommery Sec (the demand for
which is always large in upper tendom),
six bottles of mineral water and liquors
in all thirty bottles"
The gamins of Los Angeles have a
new dodge. One accosts you with a
piteous and hungry look, and says:
"Mister, won't you let me black your
boots? l haven't had no breakfast, and
l don't want to beg" The philanthrop.
ist, who has perhaps just emerged from
barber shop, where he has had both
his face and his boots polished, succumbs
to the appeal, and lets the boy take all
the shine out of his understandings. He
goes away wrapped up in the feeling
that he has done good thing; but when
he is waylaid by other boys at every
corner with the same piteous look aud
the same desire to take the polish out Of
his boots, he awakens to a knowledge of
his own greenness, and realizes that
moral deprasity is not confined to the
real.estate agent, but il also Aagrant in
the ordinary street gamin.
The ten largest cities in the world,
according to latest estimates, are Len.
don, which, with its ~uburbs, has q
population of 4.764,3l2 Paris, 2. .269.-
O23; Canton CHINA, 100000; New
York, l,449, 600; Aitchi (Japan), |, ,322,-
900; Berlin, l,l22 $50; Toxic (Japan),
9S7, ,SS7; Philadelphia, $4,000; Calcut.
ia, 766, 29S, and Vienna, 726, l0l. There
are several cities in China which claim
population of 10000, 600, but as the
claim is not based on any systematic
enumeration they are not included in
this list.
We look forward to the time when Los
Angeles will have clean streets, and
when chuck. holes will be relegated to
the county roads. But that will be
when the city fathers have realized
that the owners of blocks that rent for
$40 per month a front foot shall be
made to disgorge some of their enormous
profits in the way of taxes to contribute
to the health and comfort OF the way.
farers to whom they owe their colossal
prosperity.
A regal robe of pure silver, once the
wedding gown of royal princess OF
Prussia, and lately purchased from a
court official at Darmstadt, who held il
as an heirloom, was presented on New
Years Eve to Mile. Marie Decca. the
new American soprano. The donors
were some enthusiastic friends of the
charming Decca. The foliage and the
flowers of the embroidery are of solid
bullion. and the petals of the flowers are
repeated with exactitude.
Trebelli's was the only voice in all the
world found to titly succeed the great
Alboni in the role of "Azucena. Ii
brought her fame and decorations in al
the capitals of Europe, but it was not
enough to fill the front seats of the Los
Angeles opera.house.
A newly discovered Mexican flo ver ia
quite wonder, if reports are true. II
is said to be white in the morning, rec
at noon and blue at night; and is fur
ther credited with emitting perfume
only at the middle of the day. Itgrow
on o tree on the Isthmus OF Tehuan
tepec:
When man and wife at odds fall out,
Let syntax be your tutor
'Twixt masculine and feminine,
What should one be but neuter?
A copy of the original Latin edition O
the "Letters of Columbus" printed il
1893, has Just been sold at Cologne fo
$l650, the highest price ever paid for
book in Germany.
"Do you know what has become c
that relation of yours who used to worl
for me-" asked gentleman of an Irisl
lahorer. ''No, yer honor, but if yez
anxious to see him Oi'll WROTE to hin
an ak him to sind me his addriss.
-[Judge.
A ball is to be given at Washingto
on the occasion of the christening {
Secretary Whitney's infant. The bab
can be relied on to furnish the bawl.-
[Omaha World.
81 would rather preach the funeral c
one gambler who was generous than th
funeral of one hundred Methodists VIII
were stingy. "-[Sam Jones, Revivalis
"Nothing," says o writer, gives s
much polish as culture" When it come
to mans boots, however, we preft
blacking, Il Burlington Free Press.
II do not desire wealth for itself,
remarked the philosopher. "No," r.
piled the cynic. II suppose you desr
It for urself."-[Pittsburg Dispatch.
Johnson--Do you keep lent this year
Jackson-No, don't; but my none
will nnless Won and the rest of the gar